mai 27, 2012

imagery

'But in fact what was being metaphorized were two dissimilar phenomena,
since the planetary system’s motions work in terms of gravity, whereas
inside the atom it is electrical forces that obtain. And so the metaphor
started growing ragged and incoherent very quickly; it went from
positive analogy to negative analogy. If the model was a planetary one,
then how come the electrons were not continually losing energy in their
orbits, as one would expect? If the inside of an atom were really
functioning according to its metaphoric other half then the electron
would soon lose its necessary energy and spin counter-clockwise into the
nucleus.'